Fabrique  

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Fabrique was Fashion's 1982 second album. The album included the following UK hit singles: "Streetplayer (Mechanik)" which reached No. 46 in April 1982 and "Love Shadow", which made No. 51 in August of the same year. The album itself made #10 in the charts, spending 16 weeks on the top 100.

The album was re-released with additional material in 2004 as The Height Of Fashion.

Track listing

1. "Move On"
2. "Love Shadow"
3. "Streetplayer - Mechanik"
4. "Dressed To Kill"
5. "You Only Left Your Picture"
6. "Something In Your Picture" (De Harriss/Zeus B Held)
7. "It's Alright"
8. "Whitestuff (Short Cut)" (De Harriss/Zeus B Held)
9. "Do You Wanna Make Love"
10. "Slow Blue"
11. "Mutant Move" *
12. "Love Shadow (Smokey Dialogue)" *
13. "Street Mechanik" *
14. "Do You Wanna Make Love (at – 5:00 am?)" *
15. "You Only Left Your Picture (Reggae Reprise)" *

(Tracks marked with an asterisk (*) are bonus tracks on The Height of Fashion)

'Double Play' cassette (Arista Canada ATC6604 (c)1982) contains all the above plus:

1. "Dressed to Kill Double Dub"
2. "Something In Your Picture (Alternative Playback)"
3. "Whitestuff (The Unfinished)"

All songs written by De Harriss unless noted

Personnel

• De Harriss - vocals, guitar
• Mulligan - synthesizer, vocals
• Marlon Recchi - bass guitar, vocals
• Dik Davis - drums and percussion, vocals
• Zeus B Held—additional keyboards, engineer
• Gina Kikoine—vox (track 2)
• Pete Willman—base clavinet (track 2)
• Nick Froome—mixing engineer
• Christian Gence—engineer
• Chris Lester—engineer
• Jean-Pierre Massiera—engineer
• Jean-Marc Meredith—engineer
• Steve Robert—engineer
• Martin Homberg—engineer
• Paddy Eckersley—front foto
• David Bailey—back foto
• David Shortt—design control
• Thomi Wroblewski—front foto tinting